T Quotes
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“There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.”
“There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.”
“There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.”
“There are plenty of business opportunities around us, what we need is a creative entrepreneurial discernment to be able to discover, recognize and guts to seize them.”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.”
“There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.”
“There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.”
“There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.”
“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
“There are plenty of days when I don’t hear anything like that, but there aren’t too many days when I don’t feel as though . . . I don’t know. It always feels like other guys want me to disappear. Every day. I can tell they just wish I didn’t exist.”
Source: True Letters from a Fictional Life
“There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.”
“There are plenty of designers around who could advise you on artwork. I'm not the person you want."
"Oh, I suspect you are exactly the person I'm looking for.”
Source: Reunion at Cardwell Ranch
“There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.”
“There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.”
“There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-”
“There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”
“There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.”
Source: Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier].
“There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.”
“There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.”
“There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.”
“There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.”
Source: Mother Night: A Novel
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fights," I said, "but no good reason to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.
"It's that part of an imbecile," I said, "that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.”
Source: Mother Night
“There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them.”
“There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.”
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
Source: The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews
“There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.”
Source: Johnny Got His Gun
“There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.”
“There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.”
“There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.”
“There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.”
“There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?”
“There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.”
“There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.”
“There are plenty of other ways to mend a broken heart, and doing some list full of stuff that you don't want to do doesn't have to be one of them.”
Source: The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
“There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.”
Source: A Country Doctor
“There are plenty of people, in need of our attention, who have very little with which to repay us. But I feel that we are well within our rights if we cultivate the acquaintance of persons whom we have discovered to be in possession of specialized talents in the field of character-building. One such acquaintance may serve as a stimulant to us; another a sedative. One man laughs his fears and frets away and another growls at them. It is fortunate for us if we can recognize the exact effect that other people have on us. Then we know when to seek or avoid them.”
“There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to .”
“There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.”
“There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.”
“There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.”
Source: William Lloyd Garrison
“There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.”
“There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.”
“There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.”
“There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.”
“There are plenty of people who feel trapped in the mirror and could use all the advice you've been storing."
"But why me?" Evly asked. "Surely there are much more suitable candidates than an evil queen."
"Well, maybe not," Froggy said. "Maybe you were meant to go through all that pain and heartbreak so you could save others from their own. Maybe the Evil Queen is just a chapter in your life and not the whole story. Maybe the world has dreamed bigger plans for you than you've dreamed for yourself.”
Source: Worlds Collide
“There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery